The next morning, Kaisen woke up to find that, as usual, the girls were not near him.
He looked at the map and confirmed that Alice was indeed at the camp.
With that assurance, he decided to venture out.
"What are we going to do? If you're asking me, my opinion still stands. Let's abort the mission and leave this godforsaken area."
Maximus said, twirling his mustache—a habit Kaisen hadn't seen in a few days.
"Oh, shut up. We are here and we know something's out there. Honey, we're this close to our target; it would be meaningless to go back now."
As usual, Sable countered her fiancé. She was getting tired of his cowardice.
Kaisen looked around the camp.
Unusually, Lloyd was still there. Usually, he and Elfie would have already gone out to scout before Kaisen even woke up.
'Suspicious. Suspicious at all.'
He walked towards the yawning and stretching man.
